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To make that example more interesting, I took the screenshot from my personal 
desktop, but the resulting command and its syntax are the same. As you can see, the 
information provided by 
du -hsc *
 is a nice, concise summary. From the output, we 
can clearly see how much space each of the directories within our working directory 
takes currently. For example, I have 38 GB used in my 
projects
 directory right now. 
Not only am I storing the files for this book in that folder, I'm also storing raw video 
recordings there for my YouTube channel, so this directory can become quite large at 
times.
At this point, we know which directories at the top level of our current working 
directories are using the most space. But we still need to narrow this down to 
what
 
in particular within those directories is responsible for using that space. To dive 
deeper, we could 
cd
 into any of those large directories and run the 
du
 command 
again. After a few runs, we should be able to narrow down the largest files within 
these directories and make a decision on what we want to do with them. Perhaps we 
can clean unnecessary files or add another disk. Once we know what is using up our 
space, we can decide what we're going to do about it.
At this point in reading this book, you're probably under the impression that I have 
some sort of strange fixation on saving the best for last. You'd be right. I'd like to 
finish off this section by introducing you to one of my favorite applications, the